Nelson Peltz criticized Disney's 'woke' strategy, specifically casting doubt on Marvel's 'Black Panther' and 'The Marvels.'

Nelson Peltz, the activist investor agitating to win two Disney board seats, criticized the company’s “woke” strategy — specifically questioning Marvel’s “Black Panther” and “The Marvels,” which featured Black and women leads, respectively.

The 81-year-old Peltz, who has admitted he “never claimed” to have experience in the media business, made the comments about “The Marvels” and “Black Panther” in a recent interview with the Financial Times. “Why do I have to have a Marvel [movie] that’s all women?” Peltz asked rhetorically. “Not that I have anything against women, but why do I have to do that? Why can’t I have Marvels that are both? Why do I need an all-Black cast?”

“Black Panther” does not have an all-Black cast, nor does “The Marvels” have an all-female cast.

  • d00phy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago
    1. Because Disney/Marvel wants more women going to see MCU content. 2. Because it mostly takes place in Africa… And they want more black people going to see MCU content.

    I thought this guy was a businessman. He should understand this stuff.

    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      Born wealthy. Went to a prep school before heading off to Wharton, Trump’s Alma Mater.

      Also, while looking him out, found out he’s Jewish. Wanna bet his supporters are gonna ignore that the next time they complain about Jewish influence in Hollywood?

  • stoly@lemmy.world
    6·
    1 year ago

    LOL imagine being so narcissistic that you think that what you want matters to the public.

  • Stern@lemmy.world
    61·
    1 year ago

    Black Panther made a comical amount of money. The “Woke” strategy clearly worked.

    • Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, but old racists don’t like seeing Black people on screen, and that’s what’s really matters, doncha know.

  • Gork@lemm.ee
    51·
    1 year ago

    I see nothing wrong with all female or all PoC casts. Prey for instance (the Predator universe) has an excellent female lead and a great Native cast.

    Also this guy is 81, why the hell is he trying to get on the Board of Disney? At that age, working would be the last thing I’d want to do.

    • RainfallSonata@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 year ago

      Because “working” on a board might require about 10 hours a month of your time, if that. You attend a couple of meetings where people tell you what they are working on, and then approve or reject the decisions they have made. And then you make bank.

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I for one don’t.

      C’mon. lets get back real scifi. Like the OG Day the Earth Stood Still in style. More drama. more social commentary and less…pew pew and tinfoil bikinis. For anybody whose not seen it… the 1950’s version is a social commentary on mutually assured destruction and is still poignantly relevant today. (Also, you know the whole-Flying Saucer-lands-on-the-lawn cliche? yup. that’s this movie.)

      • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.eeBannedEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        There’s so many series I have read recently that would make incredible space opera series perfect for streaming. It’s like Hollywood is allergic to pumping out good stories with cheap production. Instead we have shit stories written by committee and approved for commercialism with blown out production that takes an entire year to complete 10 episodes instead of 30. We can’t quite do cardboard sets and practical effects like the 80s but there’s thousands of crews doing creative things on shoestring budgets.

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    1 year ago

    Somebody should ask this jackass why he needs a movie of all white men.

    Answer: he’s racist. (bonus question: why does he need them in tights?)

    • formergijoe@lemmy.world
      6·
      1 year ago

      They should do what the comics did when there were complaints about not enough white people in Black Panther. Just start having Black Panther beat up the KKK.

  • leave_it_blank@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    I watched “The man who knew too much” from the 50s yesterday. Doris Day might be the female role he likes. Obedient. Her husband tells her what to do, she is on a nervous breakdown constantly. Good times?

    I prefer modern women anytime!!

  • CitizenKong@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    Ah, the next Ike Perlmutter. At least he wants “Marvels that are both”, so seems to champion more transgender heroes. (I know transgender persons are not, or not always, both).

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    You do not have to have anything. No one is forcing you to go to those movies and no one is forcing you to join Disney’s board.

    You may not like that there are Marvel movies lead by women or black people but too fucking bad. Especially the latter. Black Panther is a major cash cow.